Spot the Difference

The employees at the Unclaimed Baggage Centre at Scottsboro Airport have made some interesting finds over the years, most notably a camera from a space shuttle and – amazingly – the missile guidance system of a fighter jet. Someone must have had a lot of explaining to do...

It seems that even plants enjoy good tunes. Scientists in South Korea found that playing music, especially classical music, to plants helps them grow faster. Though it’s not entirely clear why the plants grow faster, scientists believe that sound waves may stimulate growth factors.

It’s fascinating that the largest animal ever to have lived on earth, the blue whale, feeds on nothing but krill, shrimp-like creatures that are among the smallest sea-dwellers. But it takes 36 metric tons of krill a day to allay an adult blue whale’s hunger. That’s the weight of 25 cars!